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28th January 2005, 12:07 AM
GLENDALE, Calif. - A suicidal man who authorities say caused the chain-reaction train derailment that killed 11 people has been charged with multiple counts of murder.
Metrolink, the Southern California commuter rail service that operates the train tracks, said it was the worst accident in its 13-year history.
Metrolink chief executive David Solow said the severity of the wreck was due to the car having been wedged tightly into the tracks, creating an “immovable object.”
The force of the collision hurled passengers down the trains’ aisles.
“It’s like we went from 55 to 60 (mph) to zero in two seconds flat,” one injured man told reporters.
First on the scene were workers at a Costco store next to the tracks. They helped take some of the injured away in shopping carts.
Costco employee Hugo Moran said an elderly man covered in blood and soot and with apparent broken arms and legs was pulled out of the wreckage but died soon after. Before he died, he thanked his rescuers and asked them to pray for him.
Another trapped man had used his own blood to write a note on a seat bottom. Using the heart symbol, he wrote “I love my kids” and “I love Leslie.”
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The human drama is so amazing. I can feel the generousity and fear of that "elderly man" and the love of the "man" writing to his family. What would you do or say if this was your last minute?
Vicente
Metrolink, the Southern California commuter rail service that operates the train tracks, said it was the worst accident in its 13-year history.
Metrolink chief executive David Solow said the severity of the wreck was due to the car having been wedged tightly into the tracks, creating an “immovable object.”
The force of the collision hurled passengers down the trains’ aisles.
“It’s like we went from 55 to 60 (mph) to zero in two seconds flat,” one injured man told reporters.
First on the scene were workers at a Costco store next to the tracks. They helped take some of the injured away in shopping carts.
Costco employee Hugo Moran said an elderly man covered in blood and soot and with apparent broken arms and legs was pulled out of the wreckage but died soon after. Before he died, he thanked his rescuers and asked them to pray for him.
Another trapped man had used his own blood to write a note on a seat bottom. Using the heart symbol, he wrote “I love my kids” and “I love Leslie.”
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The human drama is so amazing. I can feel the generousity and fear of that "elderly man" and the love of the "man" writing to his family. What would you do or say if this was your last minute?
Vicente